Chess Fever (1925)

1925 · Silent film · 20 min · dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin

• Comedy

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Synopsis

With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape chess. On the brink of giving up, she meets the world champion, Capablanca himself, with interesting results.

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Details

Director

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Writer

Mykola Shpykovskyi

Composer

Roger White

Cinematography

Anatoli Golovnya

Studio

Mezhrabpom-Rus

Released

1925-12-21

Original title

Шахматная горячка

Running time

20 minutes

Cast & crew

• Vsevolod Pudovkin Director
• Vladimir Fogel
• Anna Zemtsova
• Natalya Glan
• Mikhail Zharov
• Anatoli Ktorov
• José Raúl Capablanca
• Yakov Protazanov
• Yuli Raizman

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